Thousands of people receiving payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) could be owed more cash.
A new report by the National Audit Office (NAO) on the DWP accounts has discovered the estimated rate of underpayment in Attendance Allowance is 4.3%, equivalent to some £230 million. Overpayment for the benefit is 2.2%, or £120 million, reports the Daily Record.
The public watchdog said these estimates suggest Attendance Allowance has the lowest rate of overpayment, excluding State Pension, but the highest rate of underpayment of all the benefits sampled by the DWP in its annual Fraud and Error exercise for 2021-22.
